recently as last week and testing more missiles, then you have benghazi, the attack on the hostages in algeria, and now the mali situation. some of these, especially in north africa, you could say, is that somebody else's fault or is that a failure? >> with mali, we're talking about the next phase on the war on terror. this is the sahara desert. i don't know what she could have done to stop those, but in the other cases, we're in a better position with iran than we have ever been. we have a stronger international coalition. we're in a better place to make a deal. with north korea, no one has been able to stop north korea, but we're back in asia. we're back in asia in large part because she has been on a plane constantly back in the region making relationships. >> peter, let me ask you a question and i want to get your response as well, but the middle east is very complicated, but the proxy americans look at when it comes to the middle east is israel, when it comes the dealing with iran, with israel, with the broader region. hillary clinton holds the record for the most countries visited at 112